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Bring your raingear

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Did I mention before that Hilo is the wettest city in the US? Really, it does rain alot...on and off. So, expect to get wet. If you're planning a hike on this side of the island, bring and wear rain gear. If you're headed to Volcano, bring warmer rain gear.

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I remember taking a picture of it raining like cats and dogs from my lanai, and five minutes later taking the same picture with the sun shining.

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Frequent rainfall

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One of the features os Hilo is the frequent rainfall, averaging 133 inches a year, that helps to produce lush waterfalls above Hilo. Water descending from the mountains irrigated the ancient Hawaiian taro cultivation systems. So essential was water to the well-being of a village that the word for wealth in Hawaiian is ""waiwai," meaning abdunant water.

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King David Kalakaua Park

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Public gathering place in central Hilo. When I was here, I saw a group of actors in rehearsal for "A Midsummers Night Dream". Local lore reports that King David Kalakaua (1836-1891) himself helped plant the trees which are grandly mature today. The park features a bronze statue of the namesake King, known as Hawaii's "Merrie Monarch." He's shown holding a symbolically important taro leaf and an ipu gourd.

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Green Hilo Fields

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I stayed in Kona on the west side of the Big Island and it was very nice to go to the east. Hilo area is one the most wet places in the world (at least I've been told that by locals) and everything I saw was *green*.

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Hilo is definately one of the most rainiest places in the country. Most of the pictures you see here have grey skies, don't be suprised! Most people think it never rains here and it is always sunny......

I won't have any hotel tips on this page as we spent our time on the Big Island with my brother and sister-in-law in a house they had rented. It was a very nice and spacious place sitting right on the...

Hilo is on the rainforest side of the island, which has its pros and cons. It's a rainforest...it rains...alot. But, that makes for wonderful waterfalls and Eden-like gardens. The Hilo bayfront was......